1.1: Understand the structure of a play, including acts, scenes, and stage directions.

1.2: Analyse characterisation, including protagonist, antagonist, and foils.

1.3: Explore the development of plot, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

1.4: Discuss the significance of setting and atmosphere in a play.

1.5: Identify and explain the use of dramatic devices such as irony (dramatic, situational, verbal), soliloquy, and aside.

1.6: Examine the major themes presented in the prescribed plays (e.g., ambition, love, betrayal, social conflict).

1.7: Analyse the playwright's use of language, dialogue, and subtext to create meaning.

1.8: Evaluate how elements of a performance (costume, lighting, props) contribute to the overall effect of a play.

1.9: Compare and contrast characters, themes, and conflicts within and between plays.

1.10: Relate the issues and values explored in plays to contemporary and historical contexts.

2.1: Identify the speaker (persona) and audience in a poem.

2.2: Analyse the use of figurative language, including simile, metaphor, personification, and hyperbole.

2.3: Explain the effect of sound devices such as alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia.

2.4: Discuss the function of imagery (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory) in creating sensory experiences.

2.5: Analyse the poem's structure, including stanzas, rhyme scheme, rhythm, and meter.

2.6: Determine the tone and mood of a poem and how they are established.

2.7: Identify and explore the development of themes in prescribed poetry (e.g., nature, love, identity, social justice).

2.8: Understand the use of symbolism and how objects or ideas represent deeper meanings.

2.9: Evaluate the poet's choice of diction (word choice) and its impact on the poem's meaning and effect.

2.10: Compare and contrast different poems based on theme, style, structure, or use of poetic devices.

3.1: Identify and analyse the elements of plot, including conflict (internal and external) and structure (linear, non-linear, flashback).

3.2: Discuss characterisation methods, including direct and indirect presentation of characters.

3.3: Analyse different narrative points of view (first person, third-person limited, third-person omniscient) and their effects.

3.4: Explain the role and significance of setting (time and place) in a narrative.

3.5: Explore the major themes and moral issues presented in the prescribed novels and short stories.

3.6: Recognise and evaluate the author's craft, including use of language, tone, and narrative style.

3.7: Analyse the use of literary devices such as symbolism, irony, and foreshadowing in prose fiction.

3.8: Communicate informed opinions and judgments about a text in well-structured analytical responses.

3.9: Compare and contrast characters, themes, and settings within a single text or between different texts.

3.10: Appreciate how prose fiction reflects and comments on human behaviour and societal values.